this is r t tonight so number of civilian hostages are dead with more being held at gunpoint by islamic terrorists in algeria it's in retaliation for the french assault in neighboring mali but paris maintains its actions are justified it will bring you the latest on that story tonight. forced to tackle the hostage crisis in algeria british prime minister david cameron yet again then delays a long anticipated address aimed at tackling the issue of the u.k.'s future role within the european union we examine the. other top stories head learning from us the artistic director of russia's bolshoi theater undergoes treatment for severe

chemical burns to his face after an acid attack which officials are linking to sinister professional rivalry as they put it. and. as israeli voters prepare to head to the polls next tuesday we look into why prime minister binyamin netanyahu seeing his support ebb away. hello is kevin zero in here at the new center tonight ten pm moscow time now our top story for you islamic terrorists are still holding an international group of hostages at a gas plant in algeria with the local military continuing their attempts to free the captives a number of civilians were killed during a blitz rescue attempt by algerian forces which drew anger from the international community the militants say they're acting in revenge for the french intervention in neighboring mali but paris maintains it's only there for helping to justify its

campaign right now as police reports. wildly varying reports as to the number of casualties how many hostages are dead but we do know that at least two civilian workers two brits have been killed and up to as many as thirty more international hostages could be dead now these are peaceful civilians from all around the world that will be working at the facility they've suddenly found themselves in the middle of this very dangerous situation where the algerian military have apparently been criticized for going in guns blazing you know the u.k. and the u.s. have already complained that they weren't really warned in advance that this rescue operation was taking place and they've got a number of citizens there at the moment it's very sketchy still what's going on but david cameron over in the u.k. has already warned britons to brace themselves for multiple casualties and for more

bad news potentially on the way so we're just trying to get a clearer picture of what's going on there at the moment many were very surprised at how quickly fronts wattle and jumped into this intervention just one week ago when the strikes in the north of mali began and of course with the crisis now the sakes with the crisis in algeria the stakes are really getting much higher we've got a number of civilian casualties from countries that aren't even fronts from the u.k. from britain from japan all in this very dangerous situation and a lot of political analysts saying that yes other terrorist attacks in retaliation for the french military offensive in mali are very much a possibility now we've also got critics over in the u.k. and in the u.s. saying that this is the place that the these allies of france are now paying for supporting this intervention that was quite a hastily planned and a bit of

a surprise announcement last week so of course france while london needs to spin. the crisis to suit their needs and he said that the behavior of these militants and the very brutal reports that we're receiving from the gas compound in algeria that justifies he says the french military intervention in mali up until a few days ago almost two thirds of the french public supported this military intervention in mali but for francois hollande that could change very very quickly as we're seeing these civilian casualties pile up mean we know that we had civilian casualties in the ground in mali you know throughout the course of last week but this crisis has really upped the stakes with a number of western casualties and other countries now being dragged into the situation this is turning into a very sticky and difficult situation for all and and of course this is

a man who was voted in last year in france for his rather peaceful credentials he actually said that he wanted to cut his paternalistic ties with former french colonies but we've seen him jump into this conflict very very quickly and a lot of political analysts are also saying that it could turn into a real quagmire and that these islamist groups these al qaeda linked groups could actually be much stronger in the region then the french previously anticipated so it could turn into a much longer conflict than anybody thought. they were political analyst from contra point thinks that france is getting involved in a conflict which he says is bound to escalate. i don't believe that the public will continue to support or put it on for so long in the. military operations in merely because when he was elected sixty four percent of the french public. considered that. fasold aunt. would not be able to tackle

an international crisis compared to thirty percent for extras and sarkozy so i believe that. this public support is temporary and that sooner or sooner or later the french public will realize that it's and this is all it's an unnecessary war because we were in it with longer much more than planned when you do a military intervention in a free country it triggers consequences that are not planned and in this conflict with this willy will expend in mali in nigeria in neighborhood countries and when we will push back. the extremists then who knows where they are going to. to go to i mean they come from algeria they come from libya they went to mali if we if we if we start to rebuild them there they're going to go in countries are really we really prepared to fight

a war in the will worst in africa i don't think so. while a lot of questions being asked about why is all this kicking off now some analysts suggest there is a strong economic incentive for western countries to back intervention in africa at a farm has been looking into under what is being said what is the back story well basically billions of dollars are being invested in africa by foreign countries with the major players being china the u.s. france and britain they are sinking their money into industries like oil gas and mining and that according to some critics is a major factor behind this french u.s. backed intervention in mali here's what the author william angle had to say. the critical strategical goal of us foreign policy so you need all of us here residents is to prevent the corps he's expanding your region lambaste from russia

or china to iran to northern africa and the rest of africa that could leave the united states. are just. so according to him the u.s. is fearful of china's increasing economic presence in africa in the figures do seem to back that argument up china has increased its investment in africa by over sixty percent over the last decade and they are catching america fast despite the u.s. investing over one hundred billion dollars over the last two years and there is potentially a lot up for grabs in mali as far as oil is concerned there are zero proven reserves however it is believed major oil fields have been discovered in the north the country that is still to be mapped but even if its potential is not fulfilled mali does have a wealth of other minerals to exploit it is the third largest exporter of gold in africa only beaten by south africa and garner there are also uranium deposits the

french have two major mines in the country already a mali is also a major exporter of cotton now whether it was intended or not recent western led intervention in libya and ivory coast did open up new opportunities for western firms and some believe rich pickings in mali offer a similar economic incentive kevin dandruff it was going to run and run going to a lot more about it aren't we under fire with thanks very much for the update. while britain's prime minister has warned the u.k. to prepare for bad news is around ten british citizens are in militant captivity tonight the crisis for david cameron to perspire on as long awaited address of britain status within the e.u. which he was due to deliver friday was a big build up to it details now about the marty sara first. going hostage situation in algeria of course that was the reason for the postponement but of course he's seen some of the extracts coming out of that speech that he was key to give in the netherlands today and certainly there was some strong words in it he

said that there was a gap between the e. and the citizens and that if something wasn't done to address these challenges that europe could fail because the speech that would have been given this is really considered a very pivotal point in his leadership and a hugely important speech the extraction quite a positive actually overall perhaps more positive than many of the euro skeptics would have liked to see he has some points on it that he talks about in sort of growing and building this relationship with the i know we know that there was thought going to be put on the table the possibility of a referendum deal that would take place after the twenty fifth the general election a lot of concern here that that will leave britain a can two years of uncertainty but actually what the prime minister was going to highlight is this would be starting the firing guns say to speak on the big debate of the britain's relationship with the e.u.

we haven't heard yet when the next date will be after this latest because payment of course we've seen this beach delayed a number of times already so there's a lot of consensus of the talk around this that all the hype around this is building has it really being seen as having contributed hugely to helping get clarity on this issue and i think what people are going to be looking for from the speech when it eventually comes is also encouraging leadership of the. british conservative party politician of the drug for the brute group says david cameron could no longer delay solving this longstanding problem. he needs to set a clear course of what he's going to be doing regarding the european union have a clear distinctive workable policy to fail to do that just keeps the speculation going and keeps the infighting in the conservative party continuing so really he needs to get a grip on this policy as soon as possible and perhaps not trying to lie having a referendum till some time after the next general election even if he is prime

minister but hold it before that would be the best way to end the uncertainty and so we know exactly where we are going britain pays billions each year to the european union we have enormous costs put on the british economy as a result of excessive e.u. regulation and e.u. policies they just don't work for this country it's more of a hindrance than it is a help to the british economy and of course it undermines our own democracy and the option is quite simply to either stay in the european union as it is which doesn't work for many different people or course leave the european union and negotiate a the basis of a relationship that's purely built around trade and the sooner david cameron delivers the wishes of the british people but turns power or exits the european union the better months after hurricane sandy devastated america's east coast survivors' homes remain in squalor later on in the program a report on why they aren't getting the necessary support from the government they

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download the official application to yourself choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorites. if you're away from your television or it just doesn't matter now with your mobile device you can watch on t.v. anytime anywhere. gay feelings being treated in hospital of a severe chemical burns off or a masked man poured acid in his face in central moscow for that one off to undergo extensive treatment in belgium an effort to try to save his sight. report. well the bolshoi theater the pride and joy of the russian culture is celebrating exactly one hundred eighty eight years since it was created but definitely this birthday celebration has been marred by this gruesome attack on

a statistic director feeling was returning from work on thursday night when and not notified man called him out by his name sygate turned around to respond and the man reportedly threw a ball of acid into his face we know that sergei filin was taken to a hospital and the doctors have been battling to save his eyesight in the latest information we received that sergei filin will most likely be travelling to belgium to have treatment there the prosecutor's office has launched an investigation a criminal case to determine who stands behind this attack but the bolshoi press officer said again was intimidated for several months and his car tires were slashed threatening phone calls and his facebook page was hacked as we saw in the hollywood movie the black swan definitely the big stage is certainly a rather conflict zone and there is some infighting happening behind the scenes the bolshoi theatre has never been an exception to that there have been stories of some

serious infighting to get roles to get a prima ballerina positions we had heard many revelations from former artists of the bolshoi on that still we talked to the colleagues and employees or. they were all shell shocked at what happened. it's an incredibly difficult day for us the don's company is an enormous shock it's really hot speak as we've always we're told to shoulder with sergey it's a brutal crime and i hope those responsible will be found and punished for very scared to use your court come over good luck the police should look into people who would potentially benefit from creating that sort of scandals and compromised the reputation of the theater just today surrogate was telling me how a couple of days ago they got into his car with his children and realized two piece car tires were pierced he told me i feel as if i'm living on the frontline despite all the infighting and despite the fact that sygate was the one who was assigning all the roles in the bolshoi theater still the bolshoi never made criminal

headlines and this attack is something completely outrageous for other bolshoi theater but definitely everyone is waiting for the results of the investigation for some of these preliminary data from the security authorities to see whether this could have been inside job and whether somebody inside the bush or if you could have been responsible for this terrible attack. polls conducted by two israeli newspapers just prime minister benjamin netanyahu said to win the upcoming parliamentary poll in just four days time get his support appears to be dwindling with many far right voters not regarding the policies as too soft ninety's spotlessly looks into what challenges he could face them if reelected. he's the surprise success story of israel's election campaign and one twin millionaire who says a palestinian state would be suicide for israel naftali bennett used to work for prime minister netanyahu but now he's working at taking supporters away from him like this man who used to be a diehard supporter of netanyahu so he could party until these elections rolled

around the likud is. a bus full of right wing members of knesset with a left wing person in the bus. as far as being i mean. even though i am opposed to it. i would say most members of the likud obviously is for it the irony is that while the world sees netanyahu as a right wing media at home he's losing face among supporters for not being focused enough this is part of the right wing campaign he's up against there are some things we all know one never happen and the sopranos will never return for another season ramiele climbs the line with drawn our pro and a peace agreement with the palestinians will not happen promises like this have been a jewish home party in food position it's poised to take more than twelve percent of parliamentary seats analysts say little yahoo was still expected to serve

another term is running scared he's up his rhetoric i say in the most clear of terms the western wall is not occupied territory i don't care what the un says we will build in jerusalem because it's our right not on your hands we could list has grown even more right wing with radicals like this woman high up in the pecking order. but the league would retain a part it is a party with values the state of israel is a state of the jews whose eternal capital is you're also well. but what will be the implications of such rhetoric after the elections many israelis are asking themselves about the day after will netanyahu become more right wing and risk drawing israel into conflicts with its neighbors or will he back down and risk losing face among his supporters. is hoping for the latter that netanyahu will listen to world opinion and reach a compromise with the palestinians he knows all too well what the current cycle of

violence can bring speakers daughter was killed in a suicide bombing seventeen years ago. that we don't have unfortunately in the center and the left. a leader who is significantly charismatic to lead this country and give its people hope the left is also divided but i do think netanyahu will find a way to compromise because of world pressure but that compromise won't come easy enough to the bennett solution to the israeli palestinian conflict is to annex most of the west bank while allowing palestinians limited self-will in the west and while that might not seem a possible idea to most of the international community it's exactly what his constituency wants to hear a fact netanyahu is acutely aware of policy r.t. television. and of course will be closely following the campaign trail in israel for you including that election next tuesday if you want to keep up to date with in-depth coverage do please stay tuned to us at our also you can follow on our web site as well r.t.

dot com how will change with to run develop rule sets over the expansion isolate john there be peace with jazz or what's next in relations with america will netanyahu survive his snuff election on january twenty second. israel decides what are three. more days big news stories now it's been reported that russia's former defense minister could find himself in the center of a criminal case tali said the coffs now being investigated over allegations of abusing his power the probes already revealed that some top defense officials ordered soldiers to landscape the gardens of the military vacation facility belonging to a city called brother in law or the fence with histories of at the center of a multi-million dollar embezzlement scandal over the last several months until he said the cough was fired indeed by president putin in november has been a witness to a number of fraud cases involving his former colleagues. after the latest round of talks officials from the u.n. nuclear watchdog are returning from iran without securing

a deal on investigating suspected atomic bomb research i am a inspectors have been denied access to a military site which they've been trying to get inside for several years. now the mid feb the us and israel of long accused iran of efforts to develop nuclear weapons which it denies. legal makers have on a former finance minister accused of hampering attacks probe they voted to investigate george peppard constantino over claims that he removed his relatives names from a list of tax evasion suspects on the lagarde list france handed over the names of more than two thousand greeks with swiss bank accounts and a public constantino player sees being made a scapegoat though he did night any wrong doing greece is on a major tax crackdown right now as it battles its worst ever financial crisis. friday violence in syria it's seen a rocket hit a building in the northern city of aleppo and two car bombs explode in the country's south state media says at least twelve people were killed in the attacks

which the rebels and the government plane each other for three days ago twin blasts at aleppo university killed eighty seven people opposition fighters and islamic militants linked to al qaida trying to defeat the army by seizing military bases. developing story tonight ukraine's jailed former prime minister yulia timoshenko could no be jailed for life prosecutors have announced an end to an investigation into the murder of a former ukrainian m.p. and prominent entrepreneur in one thousand nine hundred six and crucially that to be shanker was among those who had ordered the assassination and he's a go priest cannot scope the story. investigators have been looking into the murder of the deputy of the ukrainian parliament which happened in one thousand nine hundred six and last year his son passed certain documents to them which point his connection to the murder and no ukrainian prosecutors have announced that the investigation is over and she is suspected of being among those who organized the

murder and also allegedly paid over two million dollars for it now ukrainian authorities also say that the ukrainian former prime minister yulia tymoshenko has already been officially notified that she's now a suspect and if found guilty she could be facing up to wife behind bars and it's over two thousand and eleven you did see my son who was sentenced to seven years behind bars for the excess of power when she was the prime minister and struck a deal with russia's energy giant gazprom in two thousand and nine we also know that you did to my friend has been experiencing problems with the health exactly with her back and she's been receiving medical treatment while in prison also when she was jailed and you need to marshal who is also an opposition leader this has been causing a lot of protests more her forwards they've been taking to the streets several times they have there have been clashes with the ukrainian police as well as these people are demanding her release saying that this case is

a political but once again if you read to my shrink it is found guilty of the a latest accusations then she could spend much more time behind bars. you know person off the victims of hurricane sandy a closer to getting the fifty one billion dollars of aid they desperately need after the u.s. house of representatives approved the package it took lawmakers over two months to act while the storm survivors struggled with next to no support and assistance picks up the story for us. a gorgeous beach turned cost area. the rockaways in queens one of the places hit hardest by hurricane sandy to want to have months ago still in shambles today miles and miles of devastated businesses residential buildings and houses like this one a place some family probably used to call home now almost literally hanging by a thread with almost zero chance of ever being rebuilt few locals on the collapsed

boardwalk most of them in dire need of help this man who chose to remain anonymous due to government related work survived hurricane katrina his hopes of recovery post sandy are meager they never going to move you still go parts of alabama louisiana mississippi where they got hit with katrina other areas they've been touched yet after sandy hit and lead october he spent over a month with no electricity heat or hot water and thirty degree weather fame or three times i feel the creation of three times i got politicians have the poor are the folks here that put him in office the least on the a list money looks better in your pocket then is spending it on something that may get washed away again i had to replace my. water heater retired local roberta hof was currently burning building her walls floors em stairs says the destruction after the hurricane has

been immense we don't have a movie theater we don't have the hospital it's gone the banks and finally opening now it's two and a half months it looks like as after a war or after no in afghanistan or something. and most of the help in hurricane affected areas has come from volunteers i didn't see too much of the red cross to be truth it was volunteers who have often been affected by sandy themselves like ayman use of from staten island actually it was like a foot on top of it that's how much it was the water his house deemed unsafe after the hurricane is about to be demolished the only think we need is the plants the funding. to get you know we we get in like two percent it's where we're going to get the ninety percent that's a mystery we need a check from god that's what we for a month and a half a man lived in this tent where he also set up a help center for the community somewhere a lot of people coming there are still six seven hundred people. a day six seven hundred yes yes. all of these people victims of sandy everybody around here we go

up to them they'll tell you the same thing they said you know they did hand me a sandwich and a blanket and i was in water up to my chest and they said hey see you later oh by the way i want to exit the truck occupy sandy a child of the occupy wall street movement has been a big part of the recovery effort to even praised by the n.y.p.d. what we have is a lot of people coming in here and not knowing where to turn and some of them are in tears and you know it's very hard to tell them that help is coming and you hear all this talk about it the nine billion fifty one doing it that would be a big help if it actually got to communities while politicians seem to have perfected the skill of arguing over how much cash to spend on relief aid getting money and help to ordinary people who needed right now is clearly a skill that is yet to be learned and if they see a church in our. new york. checking out a few stories we'll look into our website actually one of them sounds like the

start of a joke you may say if you go to the pub wait for it on a website that a man falls off a train in the freezing siberian forest wearing only a t. shirt sweat pants and slippers you survive your father to have a cold. also there too it's not a sin that to be beautiful the top vatican cleric graces the cover of vanity fair courage it off well what's it doing there you can find out online from our salty don't. touch it you know it's got you studio it must be business time i could see you happy new year. as we head into a new year of course more thoughts but rush is the exception and probably this week was criticizing several russian ministers for not knowing the rules of the game what's going on well is basically saying him me meaning harming grass they had a better bank is saying that russia is failing to compete on the international markets well examine whether or not that's true in the business bulletin after a short break.